Vast popular reaction against Kabila’s constitutionnal coup. At the call of politicial opposition, monday 19th, the capital of the Democratic républic of Congo has been paralysed by demonstrators who haven’t step back, facing real bullets shot by the police and the military men from the presidential guard. 30 deaths and many wounded have been counted among the population. Violent confrontations have also occured in Goma, North-Kivu, and are still going on today, in Kinshasa and the main towns of the east.

The assizes of the capital of the Great North of North Kivu haven’t brought tangible results and have been marked by the pressures put on the participants to impose a state truth that wants to cover up the real reasons and those who are really responsible for the massacres

Those of us with emotional and friendship ties to the Congo have been waiting. We have been waiting for the outrage, or at least some western media coverage after reports of massacres in the Beni area of North Kivu began to trickle out in October. Finally, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a press release about the atrocities on December 16. Internet searches for “massacres in Congo” lit up for about seventeen hours and now have gone silent. Yahoo News, the Voice of America,Bloomberg, and dozens of other media outlets dutifully quoted the grizzly HRW report, which includes accounts of crucifixions, shootings, machete attacks, rape and other forms of torture of innocent civilians in and around Beni.

Despite the strong intervention of the Ugandan forces in the Bihanga military camp, the young soldiers of the former rebellion fiercely resisted their deportation in DRC, where their lives are in danger. Kampala authorities currently suspended the operation.